Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty dead, Minister of Agriculture Professor Madgearu spoke ill last week to the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies. An uproar and several fist fights started, forcing suspension of the session...
...modern book has caused such an uproar as James Joyce's Ulysses. Still legally barred from the U. S. (for obscenity), many a copy has been bootlegged in, to cause many a reader scratch his head, ask himself what it is all about. But Stuart Gilbert has changed all that. Ulysses readers may now cease head-scratching; his 379-page commentary should make all plain. More, Translator Gilbert's interpretation (unlike earlier ones) is guaranteed correct, for it was written under the supervision of Maestro Joyce himself...
...others. But a Supreme Court opinion often cited last week to show the weight of custom in legislative ratification: "A long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said he was "threshing old straw." Dry Congressmen declared that he was trying to curry political favor-a declaration followed immediately by reports that New Jersey Republicans were already considering him as a candidate for governor...
...Burst into prolonged uproar as a motion censuring the Labor Government was introduced by Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin...
...case came before the Oregon Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph charged that Chief Justice Rand had had a mining deal with Mr. Mannix and was thus disqualified to hear the suit. Then he accused Mr. Mannix of plying Justice McBride with liquor to win favorable decisions. In the consequent uproar, Mr. Mannix filed a disbarment petition against Mr. Joseph who retaliated with a similar action against his opponent. When a committee who heard the evidence recommended his disbarment to the Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph announced himself as a candidate for Governor, made a stormy campaign on the very issue before...